In the illustrated poem by Mary Baker Eddy entitled "Christ and Christmas" is a picture called "Seeking and Finding." It portrays a woman seated at a table reading the Holy Bible. Undoubtedly, she is discerning the spiritual sense of what she is reading. A beautiful light from a star, glancing through a near-by window, is shining softly upon her. Back of her is a serpent, coiled, and ready to spring, yet apparently the woman is unaware of its presence.
One might ask, Does this indicate she is in danger and does not know it; is she asleep to the error? No, not at all. Into the brightness of heavenly light serpentine beliefs cannot enter. The penetrating radiance of spiritual understanding outshines every phase of animality, everything that would strike and claim to kill. Thus, the woman's thought, deeply, serenely meditative of the vision that is illumining her consciousness, is divinely protected and empowered with dominion over evil.
Today, through Christian Science, this same inspired illumination of the Scriptures is dawning upon human consciousness. Vividly it is revealing the vision of sinless Life and sinless man. The starlight of spiritual understanding, with its radiance of enlightening, protective, holy power, is all-satisfying to the seeker after Truth. Pure, incorporeal, entirely distinct from human knowledge, and outside of belief in matter is the effulgence of divine intelligence which lifts thought upward and away from earthward gravitation. Penetrating the Adamic mist, the divine light of the spiritual idea bruises the head of the serpent.
